The invention of ‘Tarentine’ red-figure

Abstract

This deconstruction of how Apulian red-figure pottery came to be termed Tarentine has implications for archaeological methodology far beyond the Mediterranean. The author shows how the assumptions of great authorities, themselves rooted in a colonial world, led to a highly resistant model of core and periphery for pottery production that may have no basis in fact. It is a fine example of the process that has left us with so many unsuitable and immovable names for material from Samian to Gothic.

Electrochemical methods to discriminate technology and provenance of Apulian red‐figured pottery. II: EIS

“…In fact, the β values of the former group are closer to that of Pella than those of the second group. This result, consistent with the idea that the Apulian expansion of the red‐figured pottery spread from Taranto (Fontannaz, 2005; Thorn, 2009; Robinson, 2014), suggests that local workshops differently adapted the Attic technology for the manufacture of the clay body and the black gloss, thus resulting in site‐characteristic properties.…”

“…Research on Apulian red-figured pottery fabricated within fifth and fourth centuries BCE has to face the problem of the discrimination between the productions in Attic mode and those made using local Apulian procedures (Eramo & Mangone, 2019;Fontannaz, 2005;Forleo et al, 2022;Giannossa et al, 2017Giannossa et al, , 2019Giannossa et al, , 2020Giannossa et al, , 2021Ingo et al, 2000;Lühl et al, 2014;Mangone et al, 2008Mangone et al, , 2013Mangone, Giannossa, Colafemmina et al, 2009;Maniatis et al, 1993;Mirti et al, 2004Mirti et al, , 2006Robinson, 2014;Tang et al, 2001;Thorn, 2009;Thorn & Glascock, 2010;Tite et al, 1982;Walton et al, 2013).…”

Electrochemical methods to discriminate technology and provenance of Apulian red‐figured pottery. I. VIMP and SECM

“…In the case of black glosses, these are composed of different stable or metastable Fe oxides with spinel structure such as maghemite, magnetite often accompanied by ilmenite and wüstite and mixed crystals of hercynite (FeAl 2 O 4 ), embedded in vitreous or partly crystalline matrices (Giannossa et al, 2019; Ingo et al, 2000; Lühl et al, 2014; Tang et al, 2001). The proposed methodology provides information on the manufacturing techniques, including firing temperature and possible multiple firing protocols, to some extent a controversial matter ( Fontannaz, 2005; Lühl et al, 2014; Robinson, 2014; Thorn, 2009; Walton et al, 2013).…”

An archaeometric approach to gain knowledge on technology and provenance of Apulian red-figured pottery from Taranto

“…It has also been conjectured that over that span there had been a transfer of tarantine potters to other Apulian settlements, which developed into branch centers of manufacturing. However, these assumptions that Taranto was predominant in the Apulian red-figure pottery production began to being disputed by (Thorn 2009;Robinson 2014b;Fontannaz 2005).…”